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Garden Heights
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Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study
Bud, Not Buddy
a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis
Level 6 · Expert ReadersUS Grade 7Lexile 950LAR (ATOS) 5.0 · Newbery Medal (2000)
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Yearling — Random House (paperback) edition — ISBN
9780553494105.
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Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🏦 The Great Depression
Orphans and foster care, Hoovervilles, riding the rails, and Jim Crow — 1930s Black America under every chapter.
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🚄 Porters & the Great Migration
The Pullman porters’ first Black union and the six-million-strong move north that built Bud’s Michigan.
SUPPORTING
🎷 Big-Band Jazz on the Road
The golden age of touring bands, and the family a band becomes — the home Bud is searching for.
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